Parola Alberto, Hilviu Dize, Vivaldo Sara, Marini Andrea, DI Lisi Diego, Consolino Patrizia, Bosco Francesca Marina
University of Turin, Department of Psychology, Group on Inferential Processes in Social Interaction (GIPSI), Turin, Italy.
Aarhus University, Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Aarhus, Denmark.
J Child Lang. 2023 Jul 4:1-17. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000405.
Cochlear Implants (CIs) enhance linguistic skills in deaf or hard of hearing children (D/HH). However, the benefits of CIs have not been sufficiently studied, especially with regard to communicative-pragmatics, i.e., the ability to communicate appropriately in a specific context using different expressive means, such as language and extralinguistic or paralinguistic cues. The study aimed to assess the development of communicative-pragmatic ability, through the Assessment Battery for Communication (ABaCo), in school-aged children with CIs, to compare their performance to a group of children with typical auditory development (TA), and to investigate if CI received under the age of 24 months promotes the typical development of such ability. Results show that children with CIs performed significantly worse than TA on the paralinguistic and contextual scales of the ABaCo. Finally, the age of first implantation had a significant role in the development of communicative-pragmatic ability.
人工耳蜗（CI）可提高聋儿或听力障碍儿童（D/HH）的语言能力。然而，人工耳蜗的益处尚未得到充分研究，尤其是在交际语用学方面，即在特定情境中使用不同表达手段（如语言及语言外或副语言线索）进行恰当交流的能力。本研究旨在通过交流评估量表（ABaCo）评估学龄期人工耳蜗植入儿童的交际语用能力发展情况，将他们的表现与一组听觉发育正常（TA）的儿童进行比较，并研究24个月前接受人工耳蜗植入是否能促进这种能力的典型发展。结果显示，在ABaCo的副语言和情境量表上，人工耳蜗植入儿童的表现明显不如听觉发育正常儿童。最后，首次植入的年龄在交际语用能力发展中起着重要作用。
